The Romantic Wheeling Project is a multi-genre place-based learning project where 12th grade Honors English students at Wheeling Park High School used themes of British Romanticism like Natural over Artificial, Emotion over Reason, and the Quest for Forbidden Knowledge to explore their emotional connection with The Friendly City that raised them. Students were to choose one landmark, neighborhood, or place in Wheeling to inspire their open form creative writing. The student wrote short stories, poems, songs, and played with other genres to express their connections and views of Wheeling through a Romantic lens.

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Just beautiful and also sad. I was born and raised in Wheeling, but have lived in Michigan since 1979. My husband, who grew up in Martins Ferry, OH, calls MI home and our sons also say MI is their home…..but as for me Wheeling will always be my home. I try to go back at least once or twice a year. Downtown Wheeling is so sad see……to me it just seems lost and lonely.